On Friday, 13 November at 18:00, an exhibition by graduates of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts – Lara Kraš, Tina Kurić and Tiana Pozaić – opens at the Antun Augustinčić Gallery Studio in Klanjec. This is the 16th exhibition of graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, continuing a long-standing collaboration between the two institutions.
The exhibition programme offers young artists the opportunity to present their own creative work in a museum space dedicated to sculpture. This allows the public to encounter new artistic reflections and contemporary sculptural practices.
This year's exhibition brings together three young artists whose works are linked by the exploration of personal experiences, inner turmoil, fears and processes of transformation. In her work 'Altar', Lara Kraš explores her own fears and doubts, as well as the influence of sympathetic magic on artistic creation. Starting from a clay cast of her own body, she shapes a work that questions the relationship between the body, personal experience and symbolic rituals.
Tina Kurić explores the sensation of pain through abstract forms and the visual shaping of internal, hard-to-describe experiences in her sculpture 'Unexplainable Pain' and the series of impressions 'Inners'. Tiana Pozaić addresses the fear of change and uncertainty in her work 'The Unknown', exhibiting three sculptural objects made of cardboard covered in felted wool that depict different phases of the transformation process.
The exhibition curator is Luka Veić, and the show is accompanied by a catalogue and poster. The exhibition was realised in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia. It remains open until 22 January 2027.
